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  • Jurors Find Weller Guilty in Farmers' Market Crash (Grandpa going to the Big House)

    10/20/2006 11:53:34 AM PDT · by BurbankKarl · 27 replies · 1,150+ views
    LA TImes ^ | 10/20/06 | By John Spano, Times Staff Writer
    The elderly driver who ran down and killed 10 people in an open air market in Santa Monica was convicted today of all criminal charges, decisively denying defense pleas for mercy. The verdict leaves to a judge the task of deciding whether George Russell Weller, 89, goes to prison for as long as 18 years. Weller will appeal the decision, defense attorney Mark Overland said. By their unanimous verdict, jurors rejected arguments that the aged driver made a mistake and found him guilty on 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for killing 10 people. He injured 68 others...